Is anything worse than usual in Bajaur right now?

Yes. Dog bite is above usual: 1.5× its usual for these weeks.

Above usual · 1.5×

115 dog bite cases a week, against a usual 76.

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Read from these four weekly reports by Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad:

  • Week 36, 2026
  • Week 37, 2026
  • Week 38, 2026
  • Week 39, 2026
The 7 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 36, 2024
  • Week 37, 2024
  • Week 39, 2024
  • Week 36, 2025
  • Week 37, 2025
  • Week 38, 2025
  • Week 39, 2025

The publisher's own list of its weekly reports

⅛×usual8×

How this is worked out. The last four weeks against the same four weeks of the two years before, for this district alone. Illnesses with fewer than 5 cases a week here are left out: too few to compare.

What makes the most people ill here?

Non-cholera diarrhoea and malaria: 82 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Non-cholera diarrhoea63 in 100
  • Malaria19 in 100
  • Dog bite8 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea4 in 100
  • Severe chest infection2 in 100
  • 8 others4 in 100

35,204 reports from Bajaur so far in 2026.

Which illnesses are coming into season here?

Too few weeks of reports, or too few cases, to show a season in Bajaur yet.

How does Bajaur compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Bajaur is 26th of the 56 districts with enough dog bite to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 1.0×Abbottabad: 1.4×Badin: 1.2×Bajaur: 1.5×Barkhan: 0.6×Buner: 5.5×Charsadda: 1.3×Chitral Lower: 0.7×D. I. Khan: 2.1×Dadu: 1.0×Lower Dir: 1.7×Upper Dir: 2.9×Ghotki: 1.6×Haripur: 5.1×Hyderabad: 3.6×Jacobabad: 1.4×Jaffarabad: 0.1×Jamshoro: 2.0×Jhal Magsi: 0.0×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 1.3×Central Karachi: 6.1×East Karachi: 4.5×Malir Karachi: 1.3×West Karachi: 1.4×Karak: 2.2×Kashmore: 1.4×Khairpur: 1.5×Khyber: 1.1×Kohat: 1.4×Lakki Marwat: 1.7×Larkana: 2.7×Lasbela: 2.1×Loralai: 0.5×Mardan: 5.4×Mastung: 0.2×Matiari: 2.5×Mirpur Khas: 2.1×Nasirabad: 0.7×Naushahro Feroze: 1.4×Nowshera: 5.3×Peshawar: 1.5×Sanghar: 2.0×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 1.8×Shangla: 2.6×Shikarpur: 1.4×Sohbatpur: 0.0×South Waziristan (Lower): 0.5×Sujawal: 1.4×Sukkur: 1.2×Swabi: 1.0×Swat: 2.1×Tando Allahyar: 2.8×Tando Muhammad Khan: 1.4×Thatta: 1.1×Tor Ghar: 2.0×Upper Kurram: 1.2×Usta Muhammad: 0.3×Bajaur

Across Pakistan as a whole, dog bite is at 1.0× its usual; here it is 1.5×.

Why each district against itself. A large district always has more cases than a small one. Each dot is a district against its own usual, so size drops out.

Where can people get care in Bajaur?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Bajaur's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 1 hospital here so far. No clinics are on their map yet.

Where volunteers on OpenStreetMap have mapped hospitals and clinics. Their map shows where they have been, not everything that exists.

HospitalClinic or doctor

Hospitals named on the map include:

  • Agency Head Quarter Hospital Khar

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, licence ODbL 1.0.

How far is care from here?

Most people (81%) live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Bajaur. Half of people are within 124 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk19%
  • One to two hours29%
  • More than two hours52%

What people say

In the former tribal areas (FATA), 88% of women say the distance to a health facility is a big problem when they need care, against 42% across Pakistan.

Sources: walking times, Weiss and others, Nature Medicine 2020 (Malaria Atlas Project), a model at walking pace from facilities mapped in 2019; where people live, WorldPop 2020; what people say, National Institute of Population Studies and ICF, Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2017-18, table 9.17.

How well are children and mothers looked after in Bajaur?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 0 of 5, worse on 5.

From the government's household survey of 2019-20, the newest that goes down to each district. It is not this week's news: it shows the care people in Bajaur could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    67% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Is a doctor, nurse or midwife at the birth?

    28% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    16% of mothers. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    74% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    52% of homes have none. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey, District Level, 2019-20, tables 4.3 B, 4.7 B, 4.11, 4.12, 7.2. The birth figure adds together doctors, nurses, midwives and lady health visitors, the report's own definition of skilled help at a birth (page 197 of the PDF).

Can we trust this week's numbers for Bajaur?

Yes, for this week. Bajaur sent figures in 40 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Bajaur, most recent last

A reported case means someone reached a clinic and a form was filed, so these count reports, not everyone who was ill.

Sources. Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad, weekly report. District maps: World Food Programme Spatial Data Infrastructure, published as a Common Operational Dataset by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.